Tales From the Drum

Tales From the Drum
Presentation
Hosted by	The Medieval Gnome
Production
Audio format	mp3
No. of seasons	10
No. of episodes	206 (so far)
Publication
Original release	19 April 2019 – present
Provider	Medieval Gnome Productions
Related shows	The GEM Show
Website	https://mindkindle.net

Publisher Description

On the first, second, and third Friday of every month, it’s Tales From the Drum — the Mended Drum, that is. We also bring you three-minute long mini-episodes, cleverly entitled Pratchips (like potato chips, see?) every Monday-Thursday. All of these are (usually) about the places, spaces, races, and other words that end in aces of the Discworld, that pizza-shaped place (but no anchovies) that rides through space on the backs of the massive elephants Tubul, Berilia, Jerakeen and Great T’Phon, which themselves stand atop the 10,000 mile-long world Turtle, A’Tuin. (According to the dwarfs, there was once a Fifth Elephant, which slipped of A’Tuin’s carapace and crashed into the Disc. But the dwarfs can be funny that way.) Obviously, a place such as this could exist only every normal curve must have its outliers, where the fabric of reality is thin, and magic is an everyday—well, reality. Of course, it was actually the late Sir Terry Pratchett, OBE, who created the Discworld. He chronicled those places, spaces, etc. in 41 Discworld novels. In 500 years, he will probably be the only 20th-century author who is still being read. Seriously. He was that good. He was also incredibly prolific. In a span of 32 years, he wrote 70 books. They’ve sold northward of 50 million copies, last I saw. He was knighted in 2008 by Queen Elizabeth II. Sir Terry passed away in 2015 from a rare form of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. GNU Terry Pratchett. If you don’t understand that, you can find out about it in Going Postal. Also, il miglior fabbro. That’s from T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” But you knew that. Thanks for listening — and mind how you go! GNU Terry Pratchett

Further Information

To be added.

Trivia

• Originally known as The Discworld Portal, until September 2020. It was briefly Ponder's Wizardly Portal, then The Witches and Wizards Portal. In October 2021, at the start of season 11, it changed name to Tales From the Drum.
• Host Randy has two tortoiseshell cats, or "torties", named Holly and Ivy; the mindkindle.net website has no fewer than three pages dedicated to them, including plenty of photos. (You're welcome.)

Hosts

• The Medieval Gnome (Randy Paulin) - host, editor and producer of all episodes

Episodes

The table below indexes episodes of this podcast. They are listed by default in release order, and use the podcast's own numbering scheme.

#	S	E	Episode Title	Date	Book/Subject	Guest(s)	Episode link
1	1	1	"Welcome to Ankh-Morpork"	2019-04-19	Introduction	None	N/A
2	1	2	"Characters"	2019-04-30	Mustrum Ridcully; the Bursar; the Librarian; Sam Vimes	None	N/A
3	1	3	"Mrs Whitlow"	2019-05-08	Mrs Whitlow	None	N/A
4	1	4	"Monsters! Monsters!"	2019-05-11	Monsters of the Discworld	None	N/A
5	1	5	"Big Pictures"	2019-05-16	The Discworld, The Colour of Magic	None	N/A
6	1	6	"The Thickness of a Dream"	2019-05-24	Reading order; Nanny Ogg; Granny Weatherwax; various Discworld sub-series	None	N/A
7	1	7	"This Mortal Coil"	2019-06-02	Death; The Colour of Magic	None	N/A
8	1	8	"All in the Family"	2019-06-08	Death; Susan; Mort	None	N/A
9	1	9	"Love and Death (with apologies to Woody Allen)"	2019-06-15	Death; Mort	None	N/A
10	1	10	""You're just a piece of cheese.""	2019-06-21	Death of Rats; Susan	None	N/A
11	1	-	"Not the Discworld, exactly"	2019-06-21	Behind the scenes bonus episode	None	N/A
12	2	1	"Discworld, The"	2019-06-29	Geography and natural history of the Discworld	None	N/A
13	2	2	"It only encourages 'em"	2019-07-06	Belief on the Discworld, especially about elves	None	N/A
14	2	3	"Oh Brutha"	2019-07-12	The Great God Om and his prophets and priests	None	N/A
15	2	4	"The Turtle Moves"	2019-07-20	More on Om and Omnianism	None	N/A
16	2	5	"Really Unbelievable"	2019-07-26	Nuggan and other beliefs of the Discworld	None	N/A
17	2	6	"It's a Living/It's a Live!"	2019-08-02	"Life force" on the Disc	None	N/A
18	2	7	"Birdwalking"	2019-08-09	Variety of topics, inc. goblins and narrative causality	None	N/A
19	2	8	"Narratively Speaking"	2019-08-16	Narrative causality	None	N/A
20	2	9	"Genius, by Jingo!"	2019-08-23	Plot, character and theme in Jingo	None	N/A
21	2	-	"Not the Discworld, exactly II (also?)"	2019-08-23	The host and his cats	None	N/A
22	2	10	"So Long and Thanks for all the...Quantum?"	2019-08-30	Quantum and the trousers of time in Jingo	None	N/A

Many more to be added.